Cyrus + POP3 configuration tutorial/documentation

[Emma Grant]

Thanks for the reply. 

I was trying to be brief because I thought that I find the answer in any
docs that would appear. 

Just to let you know. I am using Postfix + Cyrus + MySQL + SASL to use
Virtual Domains and Email Accounts. 

The virtual setup with mysql seems to be working fine, because I can
send an email to the virtual user in my database and a virtual mailbox
gets created (using maildir). 

But, getting the mail (pop 3) is a different story. I have gone through
a few different tutorials for cyrus/imap etc... and I have been able to
get the configuration understood - except for this. 

I test this email two ways. 1) From Outlook and 2) telnet localhost
pop3. I get the same error message when testing: -ERR[AUTH] INVALID
LOGIN

My message log says: 

Saslauthd: do_auth: auth failure [user=myemail at mydomain.com]
[service=pop] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
pop3: badlogin: plaintext myemail at mydomain.com SSL(-13): authentication
failure: checkpass failed

I am assuming the second error is because of the first.

I know the passwords that I am using are correct. I have one account
that the password is encrypted, the other where the password is not.
Testing both gives me the same error. 

Here are my config files:

/etc/postfix/sasl/smtp.conf
pwcheck_method = saslauthd
mech = PLAIN LOGIN

/etc/sysconfig/sasl/authd
START = yes
MECH	=pam	

/etc/pam.d/smtp, /etc/pam.d/imap, /etc/pam.d/pop
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required	/lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account    required	/lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
auth       required 	/lib/security/pam_mysql.so user=dbuser
passwd=dbpass host=localhost db=dbname table=users usercolumn=email
passwdcolumn=password crypt=1
auth       sufficient 	/lib/security/pam_mysql.so user=dbuser
passwd=dbpass host=localhost db=dbname table=users usercolumn=email
passwdcolumn=password crypt=1

Thanks in advance for any advice/help or documentation that anyone can
provide. Been on this for days now...

Emma

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Murchison [mailto:ken at oceana.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:43 PM
To: Emma Grant
Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Cyrus + POP3 configuration tutorial/documentation

Emma Grant wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know of any documentation/tutorials on how to configure
POP3 
> in Cyrus? All I seem to find are IMAP configuration tutorials.

They are one in the same. Just follow the installation instructions and 
then make the user's INBOX and you're all set.  For example, in cyradm 
just do:

cm user.emma


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